How do you care for a yellow belly slider?

Answer 1

Baby yellow belly sliders require a great deal of care. To ensure your pet is healthy and happy here are some tips for their care:

• Provide a tank that is at least 20 gallons with a basking area water area and places to hide.
• Keep the water temperature between 75 and 85F and the basking area between 90 and 95F.
• Be sure the tank has a filter to keep the water clean.
• Feed your pet turtle pellets fish worms and other insects.
• Keep the habitat clean. Change the water and clean the tank weekly.
• Provide your turtle with a UVB light so it can absorb calcium.
• Handle your turtle gently and only when necessary.
• Take your turtle to the vet for regular checkups.

By following these steps you can ensure your baby yellow belly slider is healthy and happy for years to come!

Answer 2

All sliders have the same care needs.

Enclosure

Sliders natural habitat will be a lake or stream by an area of land.a gravel or sand bottom will be necessary.The size of the tank should be larger than 20gallons for a long, healthy life.More swimming space than land.Making the land to water passage is very hard.You should buy a artifitail foam log found at pet stores going from one side to the other.a large rock should be laid in front of the log for easy climbing.Or instead of the log use a rock to go across.If you use any items from outside,make sure you soak them in bleach and allow to dry for days or it can harm your turtle.To think of what to put into the enclosure think of a river sence and think what you would naturally find.Floating plant can be bought at pet stores and are recemmended and make the slider feel safe.a water filter will be needed or you will have to clean the water at least twice a day inturupting the sliders peace and scaring him/her.

Lighting and tempatures

Sliders will require a daylight bulb for smaller cages. For big tanks a spot lamp basking bulb is best.a slider need its UVA bulb for artifitail sunlight.tempatures will vary pending on the type of slider as same with hourly lighting, hibernation etc. Tempatures for your yellow belly slider would be 60-80 degrees f day time and temps can drop around 60-70 at night.lights should be turned on at 6am and shut off at 6at night.

Diet

Young sliders prefer a meat only diet but vegies are to be fed also.If you want a rapid-growing rate feed twice a day but that's not that healthy.I recomend once every 2-3 days however much your slider can consume in a few minutes.What they eat is worms,shrimp,commercial foods,crickets(only once in a while they tend to get in the water and crickets like to nibble on skin while the animal is sleeping),mealworms and live fish preferably mennos.Vegies include greens, lettuces and that's really it.Iceburg lettuce has no nutricial values and isn't healthy you should only feed in emergencys.worms live tend to bury themselfs under rocks and gravel making a mess.To food your slider worms i hold it above his/her head until noticed and eaten.

Shell care and diseases

As i said a basking bulb is needed.If not algae growing on the shell wont naturally come off.The sun bakes it off not harming the slider.If your slider's "pannels" are coming off its best not to mess with them.It is perfectly healthy.About twice a month you should get a clean toothbrush or any other CLEAN brush and lightly scrub it off going in small circles to ensure no pain.Shell rot is where the bottom of the shell begins to rot away(algae not coming off even with brush, or its shedding too often or the bottom of the shell crumbles).To prevent this, keep trying to scrub it off if that doesnt work take your slider to a vetrenarian immediatly.

Thanks for reading!

Answer 3

Good tank, heater and filter and sun light and heat light they will let you know what light you would need in a pet shop and land you can get basking rocks for them to climb up on in a pet store or just get a rock clean it off with warm water make sure it is out of the water for the turtle to climb up on to dry off, the tank you can feed it commercial pellets that's what I feed my little res turtle or live food I think it would be best to feed it commercial food to begin with,